And your favourite city?
Atlanta. My first American clubbing experience happened at Club Crucial in Atlanta in around 2005 (facebook.com/ClubCrucialAtl), and it was one I’ll never forget. It was a surreal night where I met Usher, had a conversation with LL Cool J about wanting to become a DJ, and really experienced the culture associated with hip-hop music firsthand in a clubbing environment. When I came home from that, I quit my nine-to-five job and put all my focus into becoming an international DJ. I’ve been back many times and I’m always in awe of the black excellence that dominates the city.
what keeps you sane on the road?
I always travel with my skipping
I have Jamaican roots so o I always feel as if
I connect differently with the world when I’m there but the first time I went to Africa, to Ghana, something inside me changed. I understood that the path I had mapped out for myself was going to take a different direction that would result in me spending the later part of my life settling in the Motherland. I don’t know exactly where I will settle but I’m looking forward to carrying on exploring the continent.
what have you ever taken from a hotel room? where’s the strangest place you’ve spent the night?
Shreveport, a city in Louisiana. I used to DJ at a casino there two or three times a year. The people are absolutely lovely but the town is sort of like the towns you see in old-school American horror movies.
It It’s s a su surreal but friendly place.
The T best place you’ve spents the night?
Sleeping in a treehouse in Denmark, in a place near Mariager Fjord on the Als Odde peninsula, was inc incredible. It was s surrounded by nature a and just so relaxing and heavenly. I wish I was there now.
Have H you ever come c close to being b arrested while abroad?
Memorable.
. moments: LL Cool J.
I was part of a big
.( top) and Drake.
show in Jamaica and you have to be very careful with your language when you perform there – there’s no cussing allowed on stage. A dancehall artist called Mavado came on stage and brought Drake out with him. The first words Drake said were very naughty so the stage got rushed by police and everyone was bundled off with threats of arrests and deportation.
Well, pretty much everything that wasn’t screwed down in the early days! I’ll call that youthful excitement now I look back. I’ve still got a couple of fancy hotel
robes at home.
what is the best souvenir you’ve come home with?
A boyfriend from Italy and a body piercing from Rotterdam – I’m not going g to say where it is, I’ll leave that to the imagination. I still have one of them. I’m sure you can work out which one!
where are you hoping to go next?
Who really knows? But I do have my first Ibiza booking of the year on June 18 at O Beach so I’m crossing everything I have it’s still going to happen. After that, if I can, I’m planning to head to The Gambia, Kenya, Antigua and then Thailand.
Kane is founder of online fitness class No Kane No Gain. Find her on Instagram at @n0kanen0gain and her mixes at mixcloud/djmelodykane